Computational models for active matter

MR Shaebani, A Wysocki, RG Winkler… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Active matter, which ranges from molecular motors to groups of animals, exists at different
length scales and timescales, and various computational models have been proposed to …

Mechanochemical feedback loops in development and disease

E Hannezo, CP Heisenberg - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
There is increasing evidence that both mechanical and biochemical signals play important
roles in development and disease. The development of complex organisms, in particular …

Mechanochemical principles of spatial and temporal patterns in cells and tissues

A Bailles, EW Gehrels, T Lecuit - Annual review of cell and …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Patterns are ubiquitous in living systems and underlie the dynamic organization of cells,
tissues, and embryos. Mathematical frameworks have been devised to account for the self …

Developmental clock and mechanism of de novo polarization of the mouse embryo

M Zhu, J Cornwall-Scoones, P Wang, CE Handford… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION During preimplantation development, the establishment of apicobasal cell
polarity is key for the transition from totipotency to pluripotency, which induces cell …

Liesegang phenomenon of liquid metals on Au film

Z Xing, G Zhang, J Ye, Z Zhou, J Gao, B Du… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Room temperature liquid metals (LM) such as gallium (Ga) own the potential to react with
specific materials which would incubate new application categories. Here, diverse self …

Three-dimensional chiral morphodynamics of chemomechanical active shells

S Yin, B Li, XQ Feng - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Morphogenesis of active shells such as cells is a fundamental chemomechanical process
that often exhibits three-dimensional (3D) large deformations and chemical pattern …

Stability selection enables robust learning of differential equations from limited noisy data

S Maddu, BL Cheeseman… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We present a statistical learning framework for robust identification of differential equations
from noisy spatio-temporal data. We address two issues that have so far limited the …

Phase-space geometry of mass-conserving reaction-diffusion dynamics

F Brauns, J Halatek, E Frey - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
Experimental studies of protein-pattern formation have stimulated new interest in the
dynamics of reaction-diffusion systems. However, a comprehensive theoretical …

Friction forces determine cytoplasmic reorganization and shape changes of ascidian oocytes upon fertilization

S Caballero-Mancebo, R Shinde, M Bolger-Munro… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Contraction and flow of the actin cell cortex have emerged as a common principle by which
cells reorganize their cytoplasm and take shape. However, how these cortical flows interact …

Quantitative determination of the spatial distribution of components in single cells with CellDetail

T Schuster, A Amoah, A Vollmer, G Marka… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The distribution of biomolecules within cells changes upon aging and diseases. To
quantitatively determine the spatial distribution of components inside cells, we built the user …